Out of the Dust is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind mobile classroom & educational outreach designed to educate Utah’s homeless using top-tier online resources and peer-instruction to teach skills & behaviors that lead to long-term success and stability. It is an effort to tell their collective stories in a fair & meaningful way that can dispel myth, reduce fear, and give them a voice at the public table. This site explains the reasons & causesfor homelessness and why so many struggle with mental health & addiction issues andincludes a custom Self Help librarythat is offered to the general public to supplement personal counseling & well-being. It also offers a free Community Resourcespage to help them locate & navigate from Ogden to Springville as well as statewide services.
This site is the result of 18 months of interviews, service projects, and learning where gaps exist, and designed to helpshift perceptions & interactions between the public, policymakers, and those living on the streets AND help those most vulnerable & marginalized to have a second chance in life with an educational “hand-up”instead of an ongoing resource “hand-out.”
Our desire is to locate free venues in or near current shelters to teach full-life wellness principles that include mental health & addiction recovery skills that lead to personal growth, sustainable change, and supplement traditional resource distribution currently being offered.
